DAISY 29

tone Was coaxing in the extreme. He laughed,

 

and said: “Very well—go ask your mamma.”

In delighted surprise, she scampered to her
mother’s end of the table. « Mamma, may | go
a-walkin’ wid Wie ri oMithter Wobertsen oe
Mrs. [rummond looked up, hastily ran her eyes
over [aisy’s shabby frock, then over Robertson’s
fee deomeneuit of clothes. EN have nothing
fit ‘to wear, child.” ,

Baisy’s face became. the. picture of despair.
The child looks very well as she isa interposed
Robertson dryly, as he walked toward them, “and
it is -a warm day; she only wants a bonnet.”’
Daisy listened in delight, then when her mother’s
consent was gained, seized [Robertson’s fingers
and pressed them to her lips. Not long after |

had taken my seat in church that morning, 4 tall